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How to Integrate "MyRoof" into ACP

My sliding roof has about 1" clearance between roof and scope in park position.
To minimize the risk of the moving roof hitting the telescope (it happened at a friend of mine) I have set up a system using a Velleman K8055 board with digital inputs from micro switches for detecting "roof open", "roof closed" and fysically "telescope at park".

For remote control I have two little programs, viz "OpenRoof_dot_exe" and "CloseRoof_dot_exe". (not ASCOM compatible.)

Both programs verify if the scope is parked (and if not: put the scope AtPark) before moving the roof.
In case anything goes wrong or in case of a TimeOut, an email is send and the program stops.

My question: how to proceed to get these programs integrated into ACP ?